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- noun Plural form of
bookful .
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Examples
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“He can read and write English and French, he knows his numbers, he can recite whole bookfuls of poetry —”
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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He had read a good deal of the odds and ends of literature and, as a simple-minded islander expressed it in my hearing, knew more bookfuls than anybody on the island.
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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